the founders

gabe zichermann

ceo

Gabe Zichermann is the chair of GSummit (SF, April 16-18, 2013) where top gamification experts across industries gather to share knowledge and insight about customer & employee engagement and loyalty. He is also an author, highly rated public speaker and entrepreneur whose next book, The Gamification Revolution (McGraw Hill, 2013) looks at how leaders are leveraging gamification strategy to crush the competition.

His previous books, Gamification by Design (2011) and Game-Based Marketing (2010) have helped define the industry's standards and frameworks, and continue to be key reference materials today. Gabe resides in New York City, where he is co-director of startup accelerator The Founder Institute, and a board member of StartOut.org.

justin schier

cco

Justin Schier is a hybrid designer and developer with over 15 years of direct experience in the Engagement space. He has been a business owner since 1999, the lead developer on large projects for companies such as JD Power and Associates, Bentley Motorcars, USC, and at least 100 others. He oversees strategy and design at Dopamine, and has built innovative web apps such as Memecube, Crowdbot and SocialReader. He lives in New York City and blogs at Ghost Transmission.

ankit shah

Chief Strategy Officer/Managing Director

Ankit Shah is a behavioral design expert who leads strategy and consulting at Dopamine Agency. With a strong academic/research background and a wide portfolio ranging from Fortune 50 clients to leading venture-Backed startups; he has helped develop multiple winning solutions in the engagement space. He also travels extensively to deliver talks expounding on his ideas on designing for humans first and the advent of the educational revolution.through distributed learning initiatives.

He attended the University of Pennsylvania and was a former student of Professor Werbach of Coursera Gamification Course fame and currently resides in the NYC metro area.